Ancestry DNA results are in brehs Jamaican 100%

[Pit Bull]

Indonesians sailed to Madagascar over 1000 years ago

How does their DNA read on these tests? Southeast Asian? Polynesian? I've seen an AA male from the south have 9% Melanesian. Are Indonesians and Melanesians related?

 

[Houston911]

@sdizzle im blacker than you

 

[Samori Toure]

I always wondered why so many of us in the diaspora have Polynesian, Melanesian, and southeast Asian DNA. My mother's sister had hers done and it had a small amount of Polynesian. Do you have any links of a person from Madagascar's results. Exactly where does the Asian component of Madagascar come from? I've heard the African component is Bantu which might be why a lot of us have southeastern Bantu DNA.

Edit: and why folks be lying like we come exclusively from west Africa when we are obviously comprised of central, south east , and I've even seen an AA girl that was 65% east African Somali. All these fukkin lies out here about our history.

Answering your last question first; I don't think that people are lying when mentioning that we come almost exclusively from West Africa, because even the Bantu people of Central, South and East Africa are thought to have immigrated from West Africa near the modern countries of Nigeria and Cameroon. However, it has not been proven that all Bantu people immigrated from West Africa. So African Americans are thoroughly mixed and we can even throw North African into the mix as well.

To answer your first question a lot of African Americans do have Southeastern Bantu ancestry. Mozambique and Madagascar were big slaving depots for the Portuguese and later yet the English. I seem to recall reading that about 10% of all slaves came from Madagascar and Mozambique. The Polynesian DNA in African Americans is actually from about 30 or so Indonesian women that had children by Bantu men on Madagascar. The ethnic group is called the Malagasy. So your eyes are not deceiving you if some African Americans look like they have Asian physical features. Some Black people look like this:

30 Indonesian Women (Accidentally) Founded Madagascar

Here is a little blog that gives you a little more detail on Mozambique and Madagascar.
Southeast Africa

 

[Samori Toure]

How does their DNA read on these tests? Southeast Asian? Polynesian? I've seen an AA male from the south have 9% Melanesian. Are Indonesians and Melanesians related?

It depends on which test. On Ancestry.com it shows as Polynesia for me and my mother's results. On 23andMe it shows as Southeast Asian.

Btw, on my mother's results the Polynesian component comes back as high confidence, which is as strong as the results that she got back from Ivory Coast/Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon/Congo. On 23andMe it shows that I had a full relative that was Southeastern Asian as recently as the 1700's.

 

[xoxodede]

Can someone talk more about the Iberian Peninsula? And how many descendants of slaves in America have that DNA? I have 2% - my mom has a higher percentage than I.

 

[Free White & 21]

Impressive. You AA?

Yup. Although from some family stories I've recently heard, one of my great grandfathers allegedly, according to my aunt, "came here on a boat".

Gotta get more details on that, obviously

 

[Easy-E]

I'm Jamaican so here are the results.....

How much was it?

I'm prolly gonna finally give in and do it.

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

Title says 100% Jamaican yet u 37% eurasian

 

[sdizzle]

How much was it?

I'm prolly gonna finally give in and do it.

$75 on sale champ

 

[BlackPrint]

This shyt like a Black SAT score.

Out here tryna join 90 or better gang but I got a white great great grandfather

 

[xoxodede]

This shyt like a Black SAT score.

Out here tryna join 90 or better gang but I got a white great great grandfather

We all have more than a few 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc -- White Great Grandfathers not by choice. Work on your tree. I recently found out via GED Match and Ancestry through my matches - two of my Great Grandfathers (3rd and 4th) - where white - a owner and one was an overseer - fukked up and disgusting.

 

[seabreeze80]

No shocker here. Descendants of slaves in North America, South America and the Caribbean are expected to have some level of admixture.

 

[Samori Toure]

Can someone talk more about the Iberian Peninsula? And how many descendants of slaves in America have that DNA? I have 2% - my mom has a higher percentage than I.

The Iberian Peninsula is Spain and Portugal so it is likely that your ancestors were either in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico or in some place in Central and South America. You could also have roots in Florida or Cuba, because Spain was there too.

Again just looking at me and my mother's results on Ancestry; my mother came back as 2% to the Iberian Peninsula while I came back at 1%. We both came back as 1% to North Africa; less than 1% to the Middle East and and less than 1% Native American. On Gedmatch those results show Dominican DNA and in one case Puerto Rican.

On a side note a lot of Jewish DNA and North African DNA was carried by the Spanish to the Americas, which seems to be coming out in the results of people in regions were the Spanish were. On FamilyTreeDNA and National Geographic Genome Project it states that I am 2% Jewish DNA. National Geographic doesn't indicate where the Jewish DNA in my system is from; it just says that it is an ancient strain. FamilyTreeDNA indicates that the DNA is Sephardic (Spanish) Jew, which would link up with the Iberian Peninsula results that I received from AncestryDNA. 23andMe doesn't indicate any Jewish DNA in my background, however they acknowledge that they only test for Ashkenazi DNA and not for Sephardic DNA which is the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. On Gedmatch the results come back to the Lemba (Bantu Jews from South Africa), Moroccan Jews and to the Ethiopian Jews, which doesn't clear anything up.

So your DNA in the Iberian Peninsula could indicate that you are likely Dominican and possibly have Jewish DNA.

 

[xoxodede]

The Iberian Peninsula is Spain and Portugal so it is likely that your ancestors were either in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico or in some place in Central and South America. You could also have roots in Florida or Cuba, because Spain was there too.

Again just looking at me and my mother's results on Ancestry; my mother came back as 2% to the Iberian Peninsula while I came back at 1%. We both came back as 1% to North Africa; less than 1% to the Middle East and and less than 1% Native American. On Gedmatch those results show Dominican DNA and in one case Puerto Rican.

On a side note a lot of Jewish DNA and North African DNA was carried by the Spanish to the Americas, which seems to be coming out in the results of people in regions were the Spanish were. On FamilyTreeDNA and National Geographic Genome Project it states that I am 2% Jewish DNA. National Geographic doesn't indicate where the Jewish DNA in my system is from; it just says that it is an ancient strain. FamilyTreeDNA indicates that the DNA is Sephardic (Spanish) Jew, which would link up with the Iberian Peninsula results that I received from AncestryDNA. 23andMe doesn't indicate any Jewish DNA in my background, however they acknowledge that they only test for Ashkenazi DNA and not for Sephardic DNA which is the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. On Gedmatch the results come back to the Lemba (Bantu Jews from South Africa), Moroccan Jews and to the Ethiopian Jews, which doesn't clear anything up.

So your DNA in the Iberian Peninsula could indicate that you are likely Dominican and possibly have Jewish DNA.

Thanks for explaining! I really appreciate it.

 

[xoxodede]

The Iberian Peninsula is Spain and Portugal so it is likely that your ancestors were either in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico or in some place in Central and South America. You could also have roots in Florida or Cuba, because Spain was there too.

Again just looking at me and my mother's results on Ancestry; my mother came back as 2% to the Iberian Peninsula while I came back at 1%. We both came back as 1% to North Africa; less than 1% to the Middle East and and less than 1% Native American. On Gedmatch those results show Dominican DNA and in one case Puerto Rican.

On a side note a lot of Jewish DNA and North African DNA was carried by the Spanish to the Americas, which seems to be coming out in the results of people in regions were the Spanish were. On FamilyTreeDNA and National Geographic Genome Project it states that I am 2% Jewish DNA. National Geographic doesn't indicate where the Jewish DNA in my system is from; it just says that it is an ancient strain. FamilyTreeDNA indicates that the DNA is Sephardic (Spanish) Jew, which would link up with the Iberian Peninsula results that I received from AncestryDNA. 23andMe doesn't indicate any Jewish DNA in my background, however they acknowledge that they only test for Ashkenazi DNA and not for Sephardic DNA which is the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. On Gedmatch the results come back to the Lemba (Bantu Jews from South Africa), Moroccan Jews and to the Ethiopian Jews, which doesn't clear anything up.

So your DNA in the Iberian Peninsula could indicate that you are likely Dominican and possibly have Jewish DNA.

Can I ask another question? I have some ancestors who were in Louisiana and have claimed "Creole" - but I have no French ancestry. Just British, Irish and Iberian Peninsula.

Could Iberian Peninsula be the root of Creole ancestry my ancestors claimed?